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Re: A big day for the Building Instructions Portal
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lugnet.inst, lugnet.general
Date: 
Tue, 4 Mar 2003 22:48:04 GMT
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In lugnet.inst, Jerry Sievert writes:


how about hosting the thumbnails?  each thumbnail should be in the range of
2.5kb, so even at 1000 instructions, you'd be under 5mb.

I have thought about that a lot. The problem is that it increases the amount
of time I have to moderate... meaning, what if someone submits an image that
is 4mb? Do I reject it and then go back and forth via email to explain why?
Or do I open photoshop and fix it? What if I don't get what they were hoping
for? Do I have to go back and forth via email to explain?

Of course, if more moderators get involved, this is a different issue.

But what other possibilities are there to solve this? Anyone?

Jake

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Jake McKee
LEGO Enthusiast
Webmaster - B.I. Portal
http://www.bricksonthebrain.com/instructions



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: A big day for the Building Instructions Portal
 
(...) How about resizing the images via code. i.e. look at the dimensions of the image and scale it down to meet your requirements. I guess it depends on the type of code you are working in, I know that Java has something, (I believe its part of the (...) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.general)
  Re: A big day for the Building Instructions Portal
 
(...) Jake, generating thumbnails automatically is actually pretty easy to do. There are several ways of doing it, depending on your OS, etc. Even if you are not able to generate them on your server, it's still easy to set something up. If you're (...) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.general)

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  Re: A big day for the Building Instructions Portal
 
(...) as long as i'm not the only one on the list :) (...) how about hosting the thumbnails? each thumbnail should be in the range of 2.5kb, so even at 1000 instructions, you'd be under 5mb. (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.general)

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